So your kitchen isn't big enough to take a rangecooker, in fact your kitchen might even be smaller than a rangecooker, but that doesn't mean you can't get an Aga in there! The iconic kitchen brand has come up with a little 60cm wide baby Aga. The S-Series Four-Two oven is the size of most standard ovens and so should fit neatly into that gap where your old oven used to live. 

It has four gas burners, a conventional electric oven, a programmable fan oven and a rapid-response ceramic grill. Oh, and it comes in a range of AGA colours.

To make the most of a small kitchen space it often pays to spend that bit extra for a made to measure kitchen. Here Debbie Bowden, designer at bespoke kitchen maker, Barnes of Ashburton, passes on her smart ideas for weeny kitchens:

'The beauty of commissioning a bespoke kitchen is that the cabinetry is made with your kitchen size in mind,' explains Debbie. 'Every centimetre is resourcefully utilised to create efficient work space and storage. Worktops can be reduced in depth, cabinets scaled down in size. Everything is possible as every component is made to measure. However, bespoke needn’t mean expensive. Our prices start from £15,000.

'Pull out “Magic Corners” with a soft close mechanism provide an affordable corner storage system.  These prevent food items or hard to reach crockery languishing at the back of cupboards.

'Recycling is still important in a small space as well. Discrete, pull out bins with compartments for sorting compost, glass and plastics, can be integrated into a kitchen, however, small.

'Choose appliances that will make the most of the space available too – a ¾ size dishwasher, for example, or a multifunction oven. And, if you can accommodate a central island, scale it down and create a sociable place for guests to perch. The island pictured below includes a pull-out bread box with integral bread board. Bread boxes take up precious space on a work surface so this clever addition has proved invaluable to the owner.'

To contact Barnes of Ashburton click here or call 01364 653613

When you live in a small space, you need to make your furniture work extra hard and no where is this more important than your kitchen. 
Look for kitchen units that are devoid of fancy gadgets. Whilst magic corner units, for example, might look great and make life easier, they often steal valuable storage space from the unit itself, space which you can not afford to sacrifice. Likewise drawers, often provide less storage space than shelves in the same area.
Try to find pieces of furniture that provide more than one function:

I spent ages searching for a kitchen bookshelf that was deep enough and sturdy enough to support our wide cookbooks. This unit from Ella's Kitchen Company does just that and more. By moving our dry foods to the cute scoop drawers, I've freed up a whole shelf in a kitchen cupboard and the hooks make a pretty decorate display area. I ordered it unpainted and painted it to match the rest of the kitchen.